Bottle crowner



J. J. GAYNOR.

BOTTLE CROWNER- APPLICATION FILED :uLY 5,1919.

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BOTTLE CROWNER.

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.l. J. GAYNOR.

BOTTLE CROWNER.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 5.1919.

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JOHN J. GAYNOR, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO MEIER-GAYNOR MANU- FACTURING 00., OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, A CORPORATION OF INDIANA.

BOTTLE CROWNER.

Application filed July 5, 1919. Serial No. 308,806.

T 0 all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, JOHN J. GAYNoR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Bottle Crowner, of which the following is a specification.

It is the object of my invention to provide a simple and efi'ective crowning mechanism, for attaching bottle crowns to bottles.

The accompanying drawings illustrate my invention: Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a crowner equipped with crowning mechanism embodying my invention and with a crown feeder for placing the crowns on the bottle mouths; Fig. 2 is a vertical section through the crowner, to show the action of the feeding and crowning mechanism, being taken substantially on the line 2,2 of Fig. 3; Fig. 3 is a horizontal section, substantially on the line 33' of Fig. 2; and Fig. 4vis an enlarged vertical section through the lower end of the crowning head, showing it in co-operation with a bottle mouth.

A bottle-supporting table 10 is carried by a pedestal 11 suitably supported on a base 12. Three vertical shafts 13, 14, and 15 project through this bottle-carrying table.

10, and below, such table are provided with intermeshing gears 16, 17, and 18 respec-.

tively, which gears mesh to drive the shafts 13 and 15 in the same direction and the shaft 14 in the o .posite direction. The

shaft 13 is connecte by bevel gearing 19 to a horizontal driving shaft 20 mounted in the pedestal 11 and driven in any convenient manner, as by an electric motor 21 mounted on a platform 22 suitably supported from the base 12, said motor being connected to 'the shaft 20 by a belt 23 and suitable pulleys. The shafts 13 and 15 are provided with bottle-carrying disks 25 and 26, the upper surfaces of which are flush with the upper surface of the table .10; the disk 26 is a heavy disk, as it carries the bottle during the crowning operation, and ispreferably provided with a hard rubber plate 27 set in its upper surface on which plate the bottle stands while it is being crowned. The, shaft 14 is provided above the table 10 with two transverse members '28 and 29, of any suitable shape, for engaging the side of a bottle near bottom and top and carrying the bottle from the disk 25 to the disk 26 over the surface of the table 10 and beneath a crown chute 30 from which the bottle recelves acrown. The bottles are guided in their travel by suitable fixed partitions 31, 32, and 33, shown in plan in Fig. 3. The bottles are fed on to the table 10 in any suitable way between the partitions 31 and 32, and guided thereby on to the disk 25; which carries them in a counterclockwise direction into positlon to be engaged in notches 34 and 35 on the transverse members 28 and 29; which members in turn slide the bottles onward over the table 10 in a clockwise direction about the shaft 14 and in constant engagement with the guiding partition 32 so that the bottles pass beneath the chute 30 and on to the disk 26; which carries them in a counterclockwise direction while the crowning operation takes place and delivers them crowned on to the table 10 and into a pocket formed by the partition 33, the two ends-of which project over the disk 26 to guide the bottles into such pocket. The partitions 31 and 32 and the shoulder 34 may be provided with detachable plates suitably mounted on the main members of which they form part so that the machine will accommodate different sizes of bottles.

The travel of the bottles on the disk 25 is controlled by a stop 40, which is a finger mounted on a pivot post 41 and springpressed by a tension spring 42 111*?! clockwise direction toward the position shown, where it stops the passage of the bottles. This stop 40, however, has a laterally projecting-operating arm 43, which is engaged by pins 44 on the transverse member 28 so as to turn the stop 40 against its spring 42 to release a bottle and allow it to pass on with the disk 25. The release of a bottle is timed, by the position of the plns 44 and the length of the arm 43, so that it allows the bottle to be carried forward in proper time to be engaged by the approachlng shoulders 34 and 3-5. In order to get this timing properly, a leaf spring 45 is prof 56 v -dropped onto 11 is tilting it..- I

' obliquely downward from the chute 30 on 1, the side thereof from which the bottles ap- "1 ends is a Though may be used, suchior instance as shown in 1 ingof the mechanism illustrated is desirable.

my co-pending application, Ser. No. 308,807,

of even filing date herewith, an understandinconnection with the present application.

The chute is vertical, and the crowns therein are in line one above the other, and rest upon one another, as is clear from Fig.

' 1. At its lower end, the chute 30 is rovided with-a swinging plate 55, mounte on a horizontal pivot pin 56 and forming the wall of the chute on the side from which the bottles approach the chute; and this plate is provided with vertical flanges it the bottom thereo 30. y of the chute, and separate from the plate 55.

- such walls of the chute near The wall of the chute plate 55 is rigid with the body which form the edge opposite the i The latter is spring-pressed toward the opposing wall of the chute, so that normally plate and the edge flanges thereof constitute merely a continuation of the corre- 'splonding walls ofthe upper part of the 1 against its spring,

' posing 7 "most crown with its jecting downward out tion to be angage mouth as the 45 the 'continuedm'o'vement of the bottle the ute; but this plate 5.5 may be swung provided with means for holding the lowerlower segment proof the chute in posid by the side of the bottle bottle travels beneath the chute, so that upon such engagement and lowermost crown is tilted to throw its up- '1 er edge against the'plate '55 and force the atter' against its spring until the lowers released from the chute and the mouth'of the bottle which A' pair' of arms 61 project most crown proach the chute, and pivoted to their lower plate 63 which projects from its pivotal point past the chute 30, being provided with an opening through which said- .chute extends. This plate is spring-pressed ownward, by a leaf-spring 64. The plate 3 is curved to conform to the path of travel of the bottles, and ridesnpon the crowns which are placed on the bottles as they pass beneath the chute 30 and holds such crowns in place. The plate 63 may be provided to separate it from its opwall. The lower end of the chute is the. crowning with downwardly projecting flanges to form guides for the edges of the crown on the bottle.

After the crown is thus placed on top of the bottle mouth as described, the bottle continues its forward movement under the pushing action of the members 28 and 29, and is carried thereby onto the disk 26. Here it is taken from the notches 3-4 and 35 by two pushing fingers and 71, which are mounted on the shaft 15 in position to engage the bottle near bottom and top. The fingers 70 and 71 hold the bottle on the hard rubber plate 27, in osition for the crowning operation. A leak-spring 7 3 bears against the side of the bottle as it asses from the members 28 and 29 to the gers 70 and 71, and assists the latter in positioning the bottle on the hard rubber plate 27 for the crowning operation.

The shaft.15 carries the crowning mechanism, for clamping on the mouth of the bottle the crown which was deposited thereupon as the bottle passed beneath the chute 30. This crowning mechanism, the shaft 15, the disk 26, the fingers 70 and 71, and the bottle all rotate together, with the bottle and the crowning mechanism in vertical alinement, and the crowning operation takes place as they move.

This crowning mechanism comprises a vertically movable crowning head 7 5, which is carried by a sleeve 7 6 splined on the shaft 15; and this crowning head is provided with a lifting roller 77 which co-operates with a stationary lifting cam 7 8 to raise the head during one part of the rotation of the shaft 15, and with a shaft 15-the point of maximum compression and the low point of the cam 78'--passes beneath a roller 80 on the end of a pivoted arm 81 spring-pressed downward by an adjustable compression spring 82 acting on the arm 81 through a rod 82', pivotally connected thereto. Thehead 7 5 is provided at its lowerend with a removable throatmember 83 having acone-shaped throator opening therethrou'gh, which throat engages the corrugated edge. of the crown on the bottle and crimps such edge inward beneath,

the head at the bottle mouth. Within this crowning head 7 5 there is a compressing plunger 84:, which is spring-pressed ward within such head by aspringmay be pushed as the-latter descends until a collar 86 there-- on engages a shoulder 87 on the interior of head to produce a positive compressing action.

As the bottle passes but onward toward and upward within said head depressing roller 79 which at one point in the rotation of the downto, the disk 26, after having received. its

crown," crown is continuously engaged and held in place on the bottle by the downwardly it carries itscrown with it. and the pressed plate 63, which is curved to conform to the travel of the bottle; and as the shaft 15 rotates, the head 75 is started on its downward movement before the crown on the bottle passes out of engagement with the plate 63, so that as during the onward movement of the bottle the crown passes out from under the plate 63 it is engaged by the lower end of the compressing plunger 81 and held in place. Immediately following this engagement by the plunger 84. the continued forward movement of the shaft 15 and its associated parts causes the head 75 to continue its descent and the conical throat 83 in such head to engage and crimp inward the edge of the crown, while the downward pressure of the plunger 84, which pressure at the last is a positive pressure by reason of the engagement of the collar 86 and shoulder 87, compresses the cork lining of the crown to make an air-tight closure of the bottle. This airtight closure is maintained permanent because the compression of the cork lining is maintained by the locking a tion of the crimped edge of the crown around the bead at the bottle mouth. The final C0111- pressing and crimping action occurs as the roller 79 passes beneath the roller 80. and the degree of compression of the cork lining is controlled by the adj ustment of the spring 82. The roller 77 separates from the cam T8 during this final action, to allow the free action of the spring. After the crowning is complete, the cam 78 lifts the head 75 so that such head and the plunger 84 are separated from the crowned bottle: and the crowned bottle is carried by the rotating disk 86 into the opening between the ends of the partition 33 and delivered into the pocket for the crowned bottles, which may be removed from such pocket as desired.

The normally stationary parts. such as the cam 78. the hopper 50, and the chute 30. are

vertically adjustable for different heights of bottles. To this end. they are all carried by a vertically adjustable frame 90. which is provided with two sleeves 91 "ertically slidable on two vertical screws 92. on which there are hand-wheel nuts 93 engaging such sleeves 91 at top and bottom to produce such vertical adjustment. The bevel gearing 54 is also carried by this frame 90, and on account of this vertical adjustment that bevel gear of such gearing which is on the shaft 15 is splined on such shaft. By manipulating the nuts 93. the apparatus may be adjusted for any desired height of bottle. This is the only adjustment required. as the vertical .adjustment of the cam 78 determines the height at which the crowning head operates.

By the term bottle I intend to include any suitable container, and not to limit myself, to containers with necks and mouths smaller than their bodies; and by the term crown I intend to include other covering and cappingdevices than those with corrugated edges.

I claim as my invention:

1. A crowning mechanism for bottles, comprising a vertical rotatable shaft. a bottle supporting member and a crowning head rotatable with said shaft and movable relative to each other longitudinally, said head including a conical throat for engaging and crimping inward the corrugated edge of a crown of a bottle, and a plunger mounted within said head and engaging the top of said crown prior to its. engagement with said conical throat, a crown chute having means in the path of the bottle as it passes to the crowning head and in advance of said head for applying the crown to the bottle while the bottle is moving. and means for holding said crown on said bottle after it is applied by said means and until it is engaged by the plunger of the crowning head.

2. A crowning mechanism for bottles. comprising a vertical rotatable shaft a bottle supporting member and a crowning head rotatable with said shaft and movable relatively to each other longitudinally. said head including a conical throat for engaging and crimping inward the corrugated edge of a crown of a bottle and a plunger mounted within said head and engaging the top of said crown prior to its engagement with said conical throat. means in the path of said bottle as it passes to the crowning head and in advance of said head for applying the crown to the bottle while the bottle is moving. and means for holding said crown on said bottle after it is applied and until it is engaged by the plunger of the crowning head.

3. A crowning mechanism for bottles. comprising a vertical rotatable shaft. a bottle supporting member and a crowning head rotatable with said shaft and movable relative to each other longitudinally. said head including a conical throat for engaging, and crimping inward the corrugated edges of a crown of a bottle and a plunger mounted within said head for engaging the top of said crown prior to its engagement with said conical throat. a crowning chute in the path of said bottle as it passes to the crowning head and in advance of said head having means for applying the crown to the bottle while the bottle is moving, means for holding said crown on said bottle after it is applied and until it is engaged by the plunger of the crowning head. and means for vertically adjusting said chute means and crowning head to accommodate different heights of bottles. 7

4. A crowning mechanism for bottles. comprising a vertical rotatable shaft, a bottle supporting member and a crowning head rotatable with said shaft and movable relative to each other longitudinally, said head including a conical throat for engaging and crimping inward the corrugated edge of the, and a plunger mountedcrown of a bottle, within said head for engaging the top of said crown prior to its engagement with said throat, means in the path of said bottle as it passes to the crowning head and in advance of said head for applying the crown to the bottle while .the bottle is moving, means for holding said crown on said bottle after it is applied and until it is engaged by ti've to each other longitudinally, said head crown prior to its engagement with said throat, means in advance of said head and in the path of said bottle for applying the crown to the bottle while the bottle is moving,-means for holding said crown on said bottle after it is applied and until it is engaged by the plunger of the crowning head, and means for simultaneously adjusting said holding means and said crowning head to accommodate the same to bottles of different heights,

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand at Indianapolis, Indiana, this 19th 'day of June, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and nineteen.

JOHN J. GAYNOR. 

